Exhibition Jean-Yves Camus "Landscapes. Territoires rêvés"

From October 22nd to November 24th, we will be very happy to receive the exhibition of French photographer Jean-Yves Camus, "Landscapes. Territoires rêvés". The photos, taken in Iceland, Switzerland and France, will take you to a journey through spaces that look both empty and full of meaning and history.

The opening will be on October 22nd at 7pm, by M. Eric Soulier, Cultural Counselor at the French Embassy, in the presence of the artist.Free entry. Cheese and wine.

Jean-Yves Camus is well known in France and in Europe through his exhibitions since 1990. This exhibition was already shown in France in several galleries. The Conseil Régional of Lorraine sponsored it to tour Australia, starting at the Alliance Française de Canberra.

You will also be able to explore Camus' work with his beautiful book Land(escape). Un sentiment de paysage / a sense of landscape, that associates Camus' images with an essay by Antonio Guzmán.

Meet the artist on October 23rd from 12:30 to 1:30pmFree entry.

After the opening of his exhibition, Jean-Yves Camus will discuss his work and his book, in French, but with the possibility to ask questions in English. The event is free, and you can enjoy a lunch formula at $15: "cheese & salad + drink" or "quiche & salad + drink". Please RSVP to events@afcanberra.com.au before October 21st.

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Here is a text by Antonio Guzmán about Camus' work (translated into English by Hannah Bensoussan).

"Jean-Yves Camus makes us stride along and trail the hidden paths of pared-down lands, but also those that go from life to vision and visual, from three dimensions to two, from sight to insight, and the paths that make a context into a project.Jean-Yves Camus’ photographic work tells a tale of the earth. It relates, visually and freely, past facts, prehistoric (literally: before the time of tales and of language) and antediluvian (literally again: before the great rains of deluges of other tales). It questions soil, flora, climate. It’s a fundamental tale, a primary and primordial tale (if not about origins, at least about something well before death). It touches vocabulary and lexical elements of this visual speech."Translated by Hannah Bensoussan/ 2014

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